Provided with money?
you must have more than I know of, then, my friend, for I trow I kept you pretty short, for your own good.
Can he have gotten more fees?
or, does he think five guineas has neither beginning nor end?
Arms! What would he do with arms, or what would any man do with them that is not a regular soldier under government, or else a thief-taker?
I have had enough of arms, I trow, although I carried them for King George and the government.

But this is a worse strait than Falkirk field yet.

God guide us, we are poor inconsistent creatures! To think the lad should have made so able an appearance, and then bolted off this gate, after a glaiket ne'er-do-weel, like a hound upon a false scent! Las-a-day! it's a sore thing to see a stunkard cow kick down the pail when it's reaming fou.

But, after all, it's an ill bird that defiles its ain nest.

I must cover up the scandal as well as I can.
What's the matter now, James ?' 'A message, sir,' said James Wilkinson, 'from my Lord President; and he hopes Mr.Alan is not seriously indisposed.' 'From the Lord President?
the Lord preserve us!--I'll send an answer this instant; bid the lad sit down, and ask him to drink, James.